BOARDING in a Sentence

Learn BOARDING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
347 example sentences for BOARDING, such as:
1. Check that the boards are all securely fixed.
2. The board disavowed the action of the executive.
3. Try browsing around in the network bulletin boards.
4. She usually boards students during the college term.
5. If I had a kid like that, I'd put him in boarding school.
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 Meanings and Examples of BOARDING
boarding
 n.  a structure of boards
 n.  the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We had nothing but the students and their appetites with which to begin a boarding department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
2  The most serious problem, though, was to get the boarding department started off in running order, with nothing to do with in the way of furniture, and with no money with which to buy anything.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
3  No one connected with the boarding department seemed to have any idea that meals must be served at certain fixed and regular hours, and this was a source of great worry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
4  Soon after the opening of our humble boarding department students began coming to us in still larger numbers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
5  This small charge in cash gave us no capital with which to start a boarding department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
6  For some time after the opening of the boarding department we had no chairs in the students' bedrooms or in the dining rooms.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
7  When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
8  Very soon the problem of providing more rooms for the girls, as well as a larger boarding department for all the students, grew serious.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
9  Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crammed with visitors who had come to be near wounded relatives in the big Atlanta hospitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crowded with sufferers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Dr. Meade could tell unlovely stories of those families who had been driven from mansions to boarding houses and from boarding houses to dingy rooms on back streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
13  The story told, the stranger Captain immediately went on to reveal his object in boarding the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
14  Mrs. Mooney, who had taken what remained of her money out of the butcher business and set up a boarding house in Hardwicke Street, was a big imposing woman.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
15  All the windows of the boarding house were open and the lace curtains ballooned gently towards the street beneath the raised sashes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
Example Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boarding houses.
2  If I had a kid like that, I'd put him in boarding school.
3  I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.
4  Check that the boards are all securely fixed.
5  The city chose existing citizen advisory boards and commissions as its vehicle for citizen participation.
6  We must make more effort than all the boards of directors that have gone before.
7  Try browsing around in the network bulletin boards.
8  Chopping boards can be a source of cross-contamination.
9  She usually boards students during the college term.
10  During the rainstorm, water would seep through the crack in the basement wall and damage the floor boards.
11  I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground -- hard packed, and no boards.
12  The boys propped up the ramshackle clubhouse with a couple of boards.
13  However, if you check out my message boards, I did post a little snippet from the beginning of the book.
14  The board disavowed the action of the executive.
15  The changes will affect local authorities across the board.